A Thank You for Hillary

I drew this for a friend who I worked with at Walt Disney World. Miss you!

fancy people!

home again home again jiggity jig!

Hello and Merry Christmas! I'm back home from Orlando and I've been hanging out with my family. Got to see my mom and dad and grandparents and little bro! Santa came and brought me a new Intuos 6x8 Wacom, so I've been playing with that! I started practicing with Corel Painter with a photo reference of some little Chip and Dale statues from Walt Disney World..

I decided to set some rules for the Wacom and myself. If I'm drawing from reference, No color picking! No tracing, too. I don't want to cheat myself out of learning this stuff! With the Chip and Dale drawing, I'm already seeing some things that need to be worked on. Obviously, proportions are an issue, and I've got to figure out how to make things look like there is depth. I mostly used the smudge tool, 2b pencil, and wet oily brush.

Keep your britches on!

HEY COOL! This happened on accident, but thank you, Blogger!

कोउर्त्नी ब्रूके वौघन'स आर्ट!

translation: Courtney Brooke Vaughan's Art!

yep.... so... um....

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I promise I'll post all the drawings I've made since I've been in Orlando. (or at least the decent ones). Just wait for me to get to a scanner. I'm coming home in 2 days.

This guy was across the room from the lady.

I sketched this lady at the Grand Floridian. She laughed through her nose.

If Animation doesn't work out as a career choice....

... my my next favorite job would involve learning how to make tiny glass sculptures.

MGM/ Hollywood Studios

I went to MGM/Hollywood studios to draw and at 3:00 the Pixar Parade came by. It was very entertaining, with acrobatics and characters from (almost) every Pixar film (I didn't see Wall-E or any characters from UP).

[A Bug's Life- check out her tu-tu!]

[Bo Peep was precious. She would walk up to children and curtsy and "blush" with her hand over her mouth. ]

[George Sanderson had a sock on his back!! 23-19!! 23-19!!]

[Anddddd he danced with the kids. Probably the best part of the whole parade. (Remember the sprinklers? yeahhh)]

[This young man was very energetic. I think he could jump up and down for hours if he wanted to!]

Afterwards, I decided to go meet the characters...

And in the Animation Courtyard, I found some concept art for Bolt. Very cool.

[I love this design for Penny.]


And then--! I met the Bolt characters!

[The family in front of me was ridddiculooous!]

[Right off, I was very surprised at how huggy the characters were. They really liked hugs. A lot.]


And then, one of them saw my sketchbook and took it right out of my hands to look at it! No joke, they looked through it for at least like eight minutes. When they saw animation notes, Bolt started jumping and pointed to himself, asking if I had animated him. I told him no, that I was still in school, but that I would love to work for Disney some day and they started making kissy noises. It was truly awkward.

I got my sketchbook back and we took a picture...

And they EACH needed a hug again. Wow. That's quality Disney character lovin'.

Disney World Christmastime

If you haven't caught on already, I am at Walt Disney World. The plan was to work a lot, draw a little, make a lot of minimum wage $$$ and come home for Christmas. And without fail, my plans changed. For reasons that still haven't been fully explained to me, I found out that work would not be an option for the next few weeks.... economy...job freeze....social security number...blah blah blah..

So you are asking, "Why are you still there if there was no work for you?"

Ah, but I have found work! It's called "Learn how to be a better drawer!" (And thinker, and reader, and hammock swinger, and writer, and french speaking person)

And that's what I've been doing- drawing allll the time, and reading, and writing, and thinking... and I'm also trying to get better at French. It's all pretty wonderful and relaxing. (Though I do miss my momma and daddy and little bro- Christmas will come soon)

Enough talking- SHOW ME PICTURES!!

[I do love a Christmassy-Castle background-character-meet-and-greet]

[This man had a small girl growing out of his shoulders. Cool!]

More soon.

A Small Tour

Where is a place that you're sure to find lots of interesting people practically waiting to be drawn? Subways, parks, zoos... Disney resorts!

The top one is Disney's Wilderness Lodge and the bottom photo is inside the Grand Floridian.

Character sketches from Disney Resorts

17 people drawings and a birdie

(you definitely want to click the picture to see it bigger- it looks tons awesomer that way)

Since I've been back in Orlando, I've been more intentional about drawing daily. I've been here for 3 weeks and usually I can get in a solid 4-5 hours of drawing every day. Other than that, I've been reading tons and catching up on movies that I missed out on along the way. It's been a very super great winter break from school, but I'm excited to get back to SCAD.

main street break room

life drawings at disney

I finally got the scanner to work- here are some life drawings before the 9:00 parade- Disney World was a great place to get hours worth of drawing time because there are people.... EVERYWHERE! I've never seen so many different looking people from so many places around the world before.

I found that I was more prone to drawing people that were in the same mood as I was. . thus:

tired people!! It was obvious they'd had a long day. I could definitely relate. (12 hour shifts, ouch!)

Monsters Inc. ride at Walt Disney World

Found this article today about plans to add a Monsters Inc. attraction in Pixar "land" in Disney's Hollywood Studios. Coming 2011.

Who's coming with me for the opening?

The Emporium- photos from Main Street, USA

Last chance

Tonight is my last night working at the Emporium in Walt Disney World. At least for this season. I hope to come back for a week during Christmas break or something, and maybe stay seasonal for the years to come. I would just have to work 40 hours a year, and I would still get free entrance and guest admission. Something to consider...

But not now! Since tonight is my last chance to see the 9:00 and 11:00 Spectramagic Parade, I thought I would post a few photos from one of the first times I had ever seen it! These photos are from maybe the second or third week of Project, after I had gone out drawing on my day off.